A complete Shakespeare lesson plan and accompanying Powerpoint resource explaining to students how to summarise and implement all of the module's learning when writing their controlled assessment essays on Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare.

This is one of serveral lessons that i have uploaded from this year 9 scheme. The premise of our year 9 curriculum is that we start to get pupils used to the GCSE controlled assessment model by teaching them the skills that they need to pass Lang and Lit. This scheme covers Media and Non Fiction and this lesson can be taught alone or with the others. In this lesson, pupils look at text types.

This is a full lesson Pp that shows pupils how to improve their analytical writing with some techniques that are generic - context is Levi adverts

This is a full powerpoint, ready to teach but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context. This PP can be added to any lesson and it will add persuasive technique bingo to it.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded for key Stage 3 pupils. The lessons are skills based and all cover war texts - from a variety of different wars. The lessons are contextualised in terms of the war period that the text originates from. The lesson is ready to teach, although you will wish to adapt and differentiate. The other lessons can be used alongside it,, but all are suitable as standalone lessons. This lesson covers the Vietnam War

This is a full lesson PP that gets pupils to experiment with writing about settings. LO: To consolidate and improve ‘writing to describe’ techniques.

WJEC Legacy Spec Exam techniques lesson Although this was originally created for the legacy spec teaching, this lesson could be adapted quite easily for any exam board and type as it goes over the techniques to employ for success – such as annotation etc.

Writing To Describe Techniques & Stimulus PP 3 This is a full lesson PP on the topic of writing to describe - I've uploaded 13 in total from this series and all have avrious different stimuli but use the same techniques of appealing to the senses and covering writing techniques. Alll can be used together or as standalone - just may need some adapting to your own topic.

For those schools who are still using the optional tests to test pupils throughout key stage 3, these are a seies of lessons that I have uploaded - with the same heading for ease of searching - that cover how to tackle them and how to succeed in both reading and writing. Can easily be adapted to your own context or the lessons can be used for other elements - ie. the generic skills that are covered.

Poetry Scheme of Work AQA Cluster 2 poems Lesson This is a series of 10 lessons that, although using all of the poems from Cluster 2, can be used with any year group to teach analysis of poems - and could even be used as prep for the unseen poem in the new Lit spec. This is a series of 10 lessons uploaded separately.

This is a scheme of work that I have revisited and updated for 2012, to include all APP frameworks, persuasive techniques and analysis of the Death Penalty. The scheme looks at murderers and results in a question about whether or not we should bring back the death penalty. Pupils end by writing a discursive essay, as if they are under controlled assessment conditions, as I am trying to prepare year 9 for their GCSE years. If you want every lesson, type in '2012 Death Penalty Lesson Miss R' and they should come up in a list. This one covers planning.

This is a full lesson PP with resources that is ready to teach. it is one of a series that I have uploaded so can be taught in sequence or you can teach each as a standalone lesson as a all have learning points int heir own right. This particular lesson is about creating a film trailer for the book.

Holes SOW Lesson PPs to support text; lesson This is one of a series of lessons that i have uploaded to structure the reading of the text Holes - aimed at year 8, the scheme breaks down the chapters / character and themes and prepares students of literature study. made in my PGCE year, so not great but can be adapted and should provoke ideas for lessons, if nothing else.

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - on writing to inform.

Based on the SATs style questions and exams, this lesson is stioll good for adapting for GCSE or optional tests in English writing tasks

This worksheet shows pupils what a plan shoudl look like and then they use it tow write from.

This is 1 of 8 similar exercises that i have uploaded. There is a job description and an application form. Pupils have to read the job description and then apply the necessary details required to the application form writing. It tests reading for meaning and writing skills at functional skills level 1. This role is for a Company Director.

As part of our drive for literacy across the curriculum, I've created a series of tutorials for teachers to offer ideas of how to incorportae literacy starters into any lessons. In this one, Pupils develop their use of contextualised adjectives for recapping skills.

This is one of 6 lessons that i have uploaded with the same title of 'Reading Skills'. This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - designed teaching the skill of speculation.

Every week, we have 1 reading lesson with year 7 in English. I now like to underpn them with an objective so that their reading for pleasure has a technical focus too. This is one of my reading lessons and the focus of this one is on sentence types.